From Zara to Nike, H&M, and Levi’s, garment makers feel the heat under EU sustainability laws
extreme heat as climate change pushes temperatures up, a report found on Sunday, a problem multinational retailers and brands will have to help address.
New European Union regulations make retailers selling in the bloc, like Inditex, H&M and Nike, legally liable for conditions at their suppliers, putting pressure on them to help fund improvements to cool factories they source from.
In Dhaka, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Phnom Penh and Karachi, the number of days with «wet-bulb» temperatures — a measurement that accounts for air temperature as well as humidity — above 30.5 degrees Celsius jumped by 42% in 2020-2024 compared to 2005-2009, researchers at Cornell University's Global Labor Institute found.
Above that threshold, the International Labor Organisation recommends as much rest as work in any given hour to maintain safe core body temperature levels.
The report identified only three retailers — Nike, Levi's, and VF Corp — which specifically include protocols to protect workers from heat exhaustion in their supplier codes of conduct.
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